Mayor Herbert George

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    “In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.”
    —H.G. (Herbert George)

    “The populations of Pwllheli, Criccieth,
    Portmadoc, Borth, Tremadoc, Penrhyndeudraeth,
    Were all assembled. Criccieth’s mayor addressed them
    First in good Welsh and then in fluent English,”
    —Robert Graves (1895–1985)

    “Take of this grain, which in my garden grows,”
    —George Herbert (1593–1633)

    “The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.”
    —David Lloyd George (1863–1945)